Architecture and Identity

"Natural beauty and cultural identity are the main features leading to a regionalist or a local architecture. The paradox is that all the efforts undertook for developing a national architecture put in exergue the interaction between man and environment. These interactions are ineluctably conditioned by our knowledge and understanding of the essential qualities. In the name of the " International style ", the architecture whose essences whose deeply felt through adaptatbility to different culture has been qualified as unsuitable and was destroyed ."